Chapter ID: CBB000774500

Eighteenth-Century Wetware (2007)

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Description Concerns automata and mechanical simulation of living organisms.


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Book Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; Newman, William R. (2007) The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Voskuhl, Adelheid Clara
Tim Taylor
Dorin, Alan
Suchman, Lucy A.
Roberts, Lissa Louise
Riskin, Jessica G.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Social Studies of Science
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History and Technology
Publishers
Routledge
Universita degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
University of California, San Diego
Springer-Verlag
Springer
Princeton University Press
Concepts
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Artificial life
Technology
Machines
Technology and culture
Artificial intelligence
People
Vaucanson, Jacques
Reuleaux, Franz
Rackstrow, Benjamin
Pittachio, Gulielmo
Merlin, John Joseph
Leonardo da Vinci
Time Periods
18th century
21st century
Ancient
19th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
Europe
Greece
Roman Empire
Dresden (Germany)
London (England)
Netherlands
Institutions
Staatlicher Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Dresden, Germany)
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